Global Capacity Selects Overture Solutions to Support Expanding
Ethernet Service

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Overture
today announced that Global
Capacity, a leading network connectivity company, has selected the award-winning
6500 Multi-service CE2.0-certified Carrier Ethernet platform to
expand its One
Marketplace Ethernet interconnect offering. The Overture 6500 is a
scalable, high resiliency Carrier Ethernet aggregation and switching
platform that delivers performance-assured services over fiber,
E-Access, copper, TDM and SONET/SDH.

One Marketplace offers customers the options of 1 or 10 Gig ENNIs
connecting to more than 3,000,000 addresses in the U.S. with native
Ethernet services. With access to Global Capacity’s One Marketplace,
service providers can use a single interconnect to procure and connect
to their end customers using Ethernet over Fiber, Ethernet over TDM and
legacy TDM services delivering near ubiquitous reach.

The Overture 6500 received a 2013 Gold Stevie Award in the “Best New
Telecommunications Product” category and will support Global Capacity’s
first 10 Gig ENNI offering and optical Ethernet connections, with
initial deployments at the company’s Ashburn, VA Point of Presence.

“Global Capacity’s unique One Marketplace interconnected architecture
requires a Carrier Ethernet platform that can support our diverse
requirements, including advanced VLAN tag manipulation, large scale
service assurance, local switching, and high degrees of resiliency
required for thousands of E-Access connections,” said Mary Stanhope, VP
of Product and Marketing Global Capacity. “The Overture 6500 was the
best product we found that could perform the complex provisioning,
tagging and performance management features needed to deliver
MEF-certified Ethernet to our growing customer base.”

“Our engagement with Global Capacity began with our 6000 platform, and
we’re pleased to now be playing a even bigger role in supporting their
Ethernet over fiber business model, and helping their customers
accelerate time-to-market for network services,” said Mike Aquino,
president and CEO, Overture. “With its truly unique E-Access aggregation
and switching feature set, the 6500 is ideally suited to help simplify
Global Capacity’s Ethernet over anything network marketplace, which
offers buyers a cost-effective and efficient means to expand their
performance-assured networks. We look forward to helping Global Capacity
continue to innovate and streamline service delivery.”

Overture is the preferred provider of Carrier Ethernet solutions for the
metro service edge. By leveraging Overture’s Carrier Ethernet expertise
and its new Ensemble Open Service Architecture™ for software-defined
services, network operators and service providers worldwide are
maximizing operational efficiencies and introducing new
revenue-generating services on a scale never before possible.

About Global Capacity

Global Capacity is the marketplace of networks, delivering ubiquitous
network connectivity solutions via its industry-leading platform, One
Marketplace. One Marketplace eliminates the complexity and inefficiency
of a fragmented network market by combining an aggregated,
interconnected physical network with a unique Cloud application that
automates the design, pricing, ordering, delivery, and maintenance of
network solutions. One Marketplace provides cost-effective,
high-performance network solutions that support the exploding bandwidth
requirements driven by the Cloud, mobility and globalization for
wholesale and enterprise customers. Additional information can be found
at www.globalcapacity.com
or by connecting with Global Capacity on Twitter and LinkedIn.